Camera shows Palo Alto residential burglar biking away with loot

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Home surveillance video captured a man carrying a backpack and walking a bicycle with a bag full of items down the driveway of a home on Monday, Sept. 26, 2016, in the first block of Roosevelt Circle about the time the home was burglarized.
(Palo Alto Police Department provided photo)

Home surveillance video captured a man wearing different clothing walking down the driveway of a home on Monday, Sept. 26, 2016, in the first block of Roosevelt Circle about the time the home was burglarized.
(Palo Alto Police Department provided photo)

Home surveillance video captured a man walking a bicycle down the driveway of a home on Monday, Sept. 26, 2016, in the first block of Roosevelt Circle about the time the home was burglarized.
(Palo Alto Police Department provided photo)

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Palo Alto police on Tuesday released surveillance camera footage of a daytime residential burglary of a home in the first block of Roosevelt Circle in hopes of identifying those responsible.

Screen grabs from the video recording depict a man with a backpack walking a bicycle down a driveway with a bag full of items.Three laptop computers, jewelry and other personal property were stolen from the home, according to a police news release.

A woman in her 40s reported the crime to police about 3:54 p.m. Sept. 26. The woman told police that her home was burglarized earlier in the day while she and her husband were not home.

“The victim’s surveillance system showed that two suspects were possibly involved, and that the burglary had occurred at about 9 a.m.,” according to police.

The video recording shows a suspect riding a bicycle down the driveway, leaving the bicycle in the back yard and walking away.

A short time later, a person wearing different clothing enters the home through an unlocked door in the back yard.

Detectives say it is possible that there is only one suspect and that suspect discarded outer layers of clothing “to change his appearance between the time he dropped off the bicycle and the time he returned to commit the burglary,” the news release stated.

Both suspects appear to be light-skinned men in their 20s, police said. The first suspect is wearing black pants, a yellow shirt, a black and gray sweatshirt and a white hat. The second suspect is wearing red basketball shorts and a black tank top.

Police described the bicycle as a black mountain bike with white lettering, a suspension fork, disc brakes and red handlebars.

According to police, the number of reported residential burglaries in Palo Alto has dropped each year since 2012. So far in 2016, there have been 69 residential burglaries reported.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the 24-hour dispatch center at 650-329-2413. Anonymous tips can be emailed to paloalto@tipnow.org or sent via text message or voice mail to 650-383-8984.

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